NEW YORK (AP) -- Nick Cannon is cast as Mariah Carey's lover in her new video -- but has the superstar diva given the young actor a considerably bigger role in real life?

According to several published reports, Carey, 38, married Cannon, 27, on Wednesday. Neither Carey's publicist nor Cannon's manager returned requests from The Associated Press for comment.

If the pair did indeed wed, it would be a whirlwind romance. Word that the two were seeing each other first surfaced in the last few weeks. Last Saturday, Carey was seen sporting a huge diamond ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her movie, "Tennessee," in which she plays a waitress. Cannon was at her side at the party. Speculation swirled that the couple were engaged.

Latina.com was first to report that the two got married, at Carey's home in the Bahamas. Friday's New York Post also has the pair wed and E! Online quoted a relative of Cannon's as saying that he called his family and confirmed the news.

"He called us and told us all about it. We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him," Linda Cannon, identified simply as a family member, was quoted telling E! Watch panelists discuss reported union of Carey and Cannon »

Cannon has put out a rap album, but is best known for his role in the movie "Drumline" and a Nickelodeon TV series (yes, Nickelodeon -- Cannon is 11 years Carey's junior). He's featured in Carey's upcoming video for "Bye Bye."

While Carey and Cannon (or is it the Cannons?) were playing coy, the famed jeweler Jacob & Co. was quick to publicize its own role in the reputed union with a press release touting the ring Cannon reportedly gave her.

The release described it as "crafted from platinum and features a square emerald cut fancy light pink diamond as the center stone surrounded by 58 intense pink diamonds and two half moon diamonds on each side.

"The total carat weight of the ring -- center stone is 10 carats -- is a jaw-dropping 17 carats with a value of $2.5 million."

Cannon does have experience with engagement rings. The actor, who has previously romanced singer Christina Milian and voluptuous reality star Kim Kardashian, last year gave a 15-carat stone to Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks as he proposed in grand fashion -- on the Jumbotron in New York's Times Square. Cameras were flashing as she said yes. They split just a few months later.

The Carey-Cannon match is already getting considerably more ink, leaving some to wonder whether it's a publicity stunt: After all, she's just released a No. 1 album ("E=MC2"), and he has at least four movies due out this year.


But then again, Carey is one of the most successful artists in music, and hardly needs a marriage to get her attention: She's already scored a No. 1 hit off the album with "Touch My Body."

This would be Cannon's first marriage but Carey's second. She famously wed top music executive Tommy Mottola in an extravagant wedding in 1993. They had a bitter divorce in 1998.

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A source close to Nick Cannon has confirmed exclusively to Latina.com that Cannon and Mariah Carey are married! The couple wed yesterday, April 30, in a small ceremony on an island and it was "very implusive," according to our source. The wedding was attended by a few close friends of the couple, including Da Brat.

Details forthcoming, but we'd like to be the first to say congrats to the happy couple!

UPDATE:

An additional source close to Carey now confirms that the couple married at a home the singer recently purchased in Eleuthera, The Bahamas. "They have been smitten with each other for days, weeks...and she's always had a crush on him," the source tells the New York Post. "There was no pre-nup--there wasn't time," dishes another source.

Carey, 39, and Cannon, 27, have been dating for just under two months, and rumors began to swirl that the couple was engaged when Carey arrived to the April 26 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her new movie, Tennessee, wearing a huge ring on her left finger. Though speculation arose that the ring previously belonged to Cannon's former fianceé, model Selita Ebanks, People now reports that the rings are not the same.

LUCKY MF!! SON OF A........

First dating Christina Milian, Kim Kardashian, then Selita Ebanks and now gotten hitched to Mariah??

Damn you, Nick Cannon!

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Although I loooooooove Mariah. Not having a pre-nup is a But! Nowadays older women are hooking up with younger men....and guess what? THE WOMEN ARE HAPPY! Tina is one of them...and Madonna another. Rumor has it that Nick is a decent guy...and attentive and caring. Maybe Mariah saw that in him....and GRABBED him before another younger, more beautiful woman DID. Everybody deserves to have LOVE in their "life"..Mariah's first marriage failed...maybe cuz she was YOUNG and impressive. And since her divorce, she has been moving around looking for what she didn't have in her "fairy-tale" marriage. I tip my hat to her cuz as Luther Vandross sings she's not "giving up on love." Good girl! She's the driver in her life, and will not listen to back seats drivers...who don't even have a CAR! And you live and you learn. That's life. I'm sure folks are gonna hate on her. Cuz that's what people WHO DON'T HAVE A LIFE do. But in the long run....she's the leader in her OWN world...and her "world/life" is NOT over....just like any one else in this world, she has to grow by her own mistakes....otherwise how will she learn and develop into a wise woman? can't get there without experience... Already she has been fabulous in how she lead her singing/entertainment career to the dynamic SUCCESS it is. She was able to accomplished that by her OWN talents....not by being a GOLD DIGGER....looking for a rich n%&^gger like a few female sharks I can mention but won't. She created her marvelous life by her own gifts given to her by the universe. So as a Mariah Carey number one fan, I say affectionately to her "Mariah congratulations you deserve it but!....watch your back and be as happy as you can. And if it doesn't work, cut your losses, dust yourself off and go back out there....cuz life is for the living." Like Lenny Kravis song says "it ain't over....til it's over." You go sistagirl...I ain't mad at cha

Mariah Carey...a COUGAR??!!
Wow! I can't help it, but I am getting flashbacks of whit and bob....

At least Nick Cannon isn't a junkie. He's annoying, but not a junkie.

Yeah I was like wow when I first heard this. I wish them the best, even though it's mildly odd to me... Lol. I mean dude is from Nickelodeon!

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LUCKY MF!!

How is Cannon lucky? Mariah is nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake.

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Originally posted by Huey:
LUCKY MF!!

How is Cannon lucky? Mariah is nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake.

Was nuttier. Compared to Cannon, Mariah has way more bank than him. As if Cannon is a sane brotha. He's just a sober version of Bobby Brown.

Y'all should REALLY quit!

LOL ... Mariah ain't foolin' nobody!!

At 38, she's just about entering her *prime of life* thang. Nick was probably the first one in the way when that train got ta rollin'!

She drank one glass of milk and bought the whole damn cow!!

I ain't mad at her ... I just hope the brotha can survive it!!

He seems like such a nice kid!

@EbonyRose....maybe not! But isn't the trend OLDER women, younger men? Who knows how long it will last....but! I gather Mariah wants to be in CONTROL of this relationship. No more OLDER men tellin' her what to do. And you really can't blame her. The shoe is on other foot nowadays. Use to be these OLDER men were marrying younger women just out of kindergarten! It was accepted and practiced for thousands of years. Now that the Divas[women who are MAKING THEIR OWN MONEY] are callin the shots in their own lives...mind you...everybody's tryin to hate. She's at her prime....and want a man at his prime. Who wants to have a baby/or have sex with old sperm? She can choose....and that's what she's doin'. No body said anything about Hugh Hefner[who's 4 thousand years old] when he married his wife at three years old...the men all over the world were happy to see him do that. But when Viagra came on the scene....he dropped her like a hot potato.... I say to all divas who can DO IT....You go sistagirl! All of you! It's your time....do it til YOU'RE satisfied!